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cali

(114,904 posts) Wed Jul 10, 2013, 08:14 AM Jul 2013

The owner of the Musi-Cafe in Lac Megantic thinks the death toll is much higher

than the official count of dead and missing.

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Gagne said about 40 people were inside his bar and 20 others were on the patio when disaster struck.

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Trains passed behind Music-Café three times a day, and a possible derailment was always in the back of Gagne’s mind. But he never expected an “end-of-the-world kind of bomb.”

Gagne said he and other residents of Lac-Megantic believe the number of missing people is a lot higher than the official count. He thinks as many as 100 could be gone.

“A lot of people told me it's not your fault you got the best place in town and everyone wants to be there and everyone inside was happy to be there,” he said of the bar that attracted crowds, music and celebrations every weekend.

Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/it-was-a-place-of-happiness-owner-mourns-staff-patrons-of-destroyed-lac-megantic-bar-1.1360745#ixzz2YdztzMsZ

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The owner of the Musi-Cafe in Lac Megantic thinks the death toll is much higher (Original Post) cali Jul 2013 OP

kick for the horror of it all. cali Jul 2013 #1

k&r for exposure. n/t Laelth Jul 2013 #2

And if they are lucky they will find teeth malaise Jul 2013 #3

right. what's left when people are "vaporized" cali Jul 2013 #4

Is this getting any exposure in our corporate media? CanonRay Jul 2013 #5

very, very little considering the magitude of this disaster and its implications cali Jul 2013 #6

the official cali Jul 2013 #7

cali

(114,904 posts)

1. kick for the horror of it all.

Reply to cali (Original post)

Wed Jul 10, 2013, 08:57 AM

Jul 2013

kick for the people of Lac Megantic and what they're suffering.

Laelth

(32,017 posts)

2. k&r for exposure. n/t

Reply to cali (Original post)

Wed Jul 10, 2013, 09:27 AM

Jul 2013

-Laelth

malaise

(268,969 posts)

3. And if they are lucky they will find teeth

Reply to cali (Original post)

Wed Jul 10, 2013, 09:29 AM

Jul 2013

and nothing else

cali

(114,904 posts)

4. right. what's left when people are "vaporized"

Reply to malaise (Reply #3)

Wed Jul 10, 2013, 09:43 AM

Jul 2013

It may not just be locals either. Lac Megantic was a tourist town.

CanonRay

(14,101 posts)

5. Is this getting any exposure in our corporate media?

Reply to cali (Original post)

Wed Jul 10, 2013, 10:13 AM

Jul 2013

Very little that I see.

cali

(114,904 posts)

6. very, very little considering the magitude of this disaster and its implications

Reply to CanonRay (Reply #5)

Wed Jul 10, 2013, 10:20 AM

Jul 2013

the corporate media is largely using it to push Keystone XL and other even worse pipeline schemes.

cali

(114,904 posts)

7. the official

Reply to cali (Original post)

Wed Jul 10, 2013, 12:26 PM

Jul 2013

Sixty people are now thought to be dead or missing after a freight train carrying crude oil derailed and blew up in Quebec, Canadian police say.

Fifty people were previously known to be dead or missing after the weekend's blast in Lac-Megantic. There are 15 unidentified bodies.

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Authorities have asked the relatives of those still missing to provide DNA samples by bringing in toothbrushes, razors and other items.

But the authorities have also warned some of the bodies may have been burnt to ashes in the explosion.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23260199

Lac-Mégantic victims pose challenge for forensic experts

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2013/07/09/f-forensic-identification-lac-megantic.html

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